Thoughts Sent in 1998
1/4/1998 | Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. | - | Bob Talbert | |
1/5/1998 | It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. | - | John Wooden | |
1/6/1998 | All things are difficult before they are easy. | - | John Norley | |
1/7/1998 | Champions keep playing until they get it right. | - | Billie Jean King | |
1/8/1998 | Good intentions are no substitute for action; failure usually follows the path of least resistance. | - | unknown | |
1/12/1998 | Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. | - | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
1/12/1998 | You must do the things that you think that you cannot do. | - | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
1/13/1998 | We are friends; we must assist each other to bear our burdens. | - | Osage Indian Proverb | |
1/13/1998 | We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. | - | Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
1/14/1998 | Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. | - | unknown | |
1/15/1998 | When one door is shut, another opens. | - | Miguel De Cervantes | |
1/18/1998 | Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. | - | General George S. Patton | |
1/19/1998 | Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. | - | Fred Shero | |
1/20/1998 | The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. | - | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
1/21/1998 | If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise the price. | - | Unknown | |
1/22/1998 | The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. | - | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
1/25/1998 | Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. | - | Franklin Roosevelt | |
1/26/1998 | Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. | - | Sam Ewing | |
1/27/1998 | No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. | - | Voltaire | |
1/28/1998 | Destiny is not a mater of chance, it is a matter of choice. | - | unknown | |
1/29/1998 | Love is life … and if you miss love, you miss life. | - | Leo Buscalia | |
2/1/1998 | We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. | - | unknown | |
2/2/1998 | Our life is what our thoughts make it. | - | Marcus Aurelius | |
2/3/1998 | The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. | - | William James | |
2/4/1998 | If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. | - | Yogi Berra | |
2/5/1998 | Miracles happen to those who believe in them. | - | Bernard Berenson | |
2/8/1998 | Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
2/9/1998 | Winners never quit and quitters never win. | - | Vince Lombardi | |
2/10/1998 | There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. | - | Beverly Sills | |
2/11/1998 | Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. | - | Spanish proverb | |
2/12/1998 | To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. | - | Marilyn von Savant | |
2/15/1998 | If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him your are his sincere friend. | - | Abraham Lincoln | |
2/17/1998 | It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. | - | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
2/17/1998 | Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. | - | E. Joseph Cossman | |
2/19/1998 | When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. | - | J. Lubbock | |
2/19/1998 | Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. | - | unknown | |
2/22/1998 | The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
2/23/1998 | Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. | - | Abraham Lincoln | |
2/24/1998 | To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? | - | Katharine Graham | |
2/25/1998 | Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
2/26/1998 | The way I see it: if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. | - | Dolly Parton | |
3/1/1998 | The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. | - | General H. Norman Schwarzkopf | |
3/2/1998 | Success is 99 percent failure. | - | Soichiro Honda | |
3/3/1998 | The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. | - | John Ruskin | |
3/4/1998 | The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right. | - | Jill Ruckelshaus | |
3/5/1998 | You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning. | - | Jesse Jackson | |
3/9/1998 | A good example is the best sermon. | - | Benjamin Franklin | |
3/9/1998 | When I talked no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous. | - | Giosue Borski | |
3/10/1998 | An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer. | - | Phillip II of Macedon | |
3/11/1998 | Well done is better than well said. | - | Ben Franklin | |
3/12/1998 | You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. | - | Charles Buxton | |
3/15/1998 | There's not a lot of traffic on the extra mile. | - | Michael LeBouef | |
3/16/1998 | You can only make others better by being good yourself. | - | Hugh R. Hanels | |
3/17/1998 | To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. | - | George Orwell | |
3/18/1998 | The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. | - | unknown | |
3/19/1998 | Nothing ages people like not thinking. | - | Christopher Morley | |
3/22/1998 | Patience is never more important than when you're on the verge of losing it. | - | unknown | |
3/23/1998 | Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score. | - | Marianne Espinosa Murphy | |
3/24/1998 | The best way to forget your own problems is to help others solve theirs. | - | unknown | |
3/25/1998 | Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. | - | Robert Half | |
3/26/1998 | As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. | - | Andrew Carnegie | |
3/29/1998 | Before I can see what John Jones buys, I must see the world through John Jones' eyes. | - | unknown | |
3/30/1998 | Angels can fly because the take themselves lightly. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
4/1/1998 | Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and I can learn from him. | - | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
4/2/1998 | Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles. | - | Joan Lunden | |
4/5/1998 | People do not really decide their future. . . . They decide their habits - then their habits decide their future. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
4/6/1998 | Patience, and the mulberry leaf become a silk gown. | - | Chinese proverb | |
4/8/1998 | Shoot for the moon … even if you miss you'll be among the stars. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
4/9/1998 | Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Dare to dream. | - | Robert Schuller | |
4/12/1998 | You can't shrink your way to greatness. | - | Arthur Martinez | |
4/13/1998 | Be the change you want to see in the world. | - | Gandhi | |
4/21/1998 | Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say. | - | Matthew Trump | |
4/21/1998 | Everyone likes a good loser, especially when he's on the opposing team. | - | Milton Segal | |
4/22/1998 | If you want to leave footprints in the sand of time - wear work boots! | - | Bits & Pieces | |
4/23/1998 | Children have more need of models than of critics. | - | Carolyn Coats | |
4/26/1998 | You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. | - | Henry Ford | |
4/27/1998 | You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. | - | Margaret Thatcher | |
4/28/1998 | The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems; it's whether it has the same problems it had last year. | - | John Foster Dulles | |
4/29/1998 | The first person who has to believe in you is you. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
4/30/1998 | Vision is the art of seeing the invisible | - | Jonathan Swift | |
5/2/1998 | There is no more miserable human being than the one whom nothing is habitual but indecision. | - | William James | |
5/4/1998 | Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. | - | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
5/5/1998 | The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. | - | Dean Rusk | |
5/6/1998 | You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
5/7/1998 | People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered by themselves than those found by others. | - | Blaise Pascal | |
5/9/1998 | Love is true when you don't see eye to eye, but can still walk hand in hand. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
5/13/1998 | Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? | - | Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
5/14/1998 | Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | - | unknown | |
5/17/1998 | Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. | - | Peter F. Drucker | |
5/18/1998 | People seldom become famous for what they say until after they become famous for what they've done. | - | Cullen Hightower | |
5/19/1998 | Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. | - | Syrus | |
5/20/1998 | If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort. | - | Dave Weinbaum | |
5/21/1998 | Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. | - | Peter Drucker | |
5/25/1998 | No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road. turn back. | - | Turkish Proverb | |
5/26/1998 | Purpose is what gives life meaning. | - | unknown | |
5/27/1998 | Love is never afraid of giving too much. | - | Unknown | |
5/28/1998 | We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were no in the ocean, it would be missed. | - | Mother Teresa | |
5/31/1998 | What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
6/1/1998 | Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. | - | Chinese Proverb | |
6/2/1998 | The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. | - | William F. Scolavino | |
6/3/1998 | Success in life is a matter not so much of talent and opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. | - | C.W. Wendte | |
6/4/1998 | Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. | - | Oprah Winfrey | |
6/7/1998 | Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. | - | Unknown | |
6/8/1998 | Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they're blind. | - | Marston Bates | |
6/9/1998 | See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little. | - | Pope John XXIII | |
6/10/1998 | You were born an original. Don't die a copy. | - | John Mason | |
6/11/1998 | You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
6/14/1998 | The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer. | - | Alice Wellington Rollins | |
6/15/1998 | The ten most powerful two-letter words: IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
6/16/1998 | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. | - | unknown | |
6/17/1998 | Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. | - | Henry Ford | |
6/18/1998 | Plan you work for today and every day, then work your plan. | - | Norman Vincent Peale | |
6/21/1998 | Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. | - | Thomas Sowell | |
6/22/1998 | Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. | - | Unknown | |
6/23/1998 | Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. | - | H. Jackson Brown | |
6/24/1998 | The great dividing line between success and failure can be stated in five words: I did not have time. | - | Henry Davenport | |
6/26/1998 | The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. | - | Billy Joel | |
6/28/1998 | If you don't do something, nothing is going to get better. | - | Nathaniel Branden | |
6/29/1998 | Action is the antidote to dispair. | - | Joan Baez | |
6/30/1998 | Adversity is the best source of strength. | - | Japanese Proverb | |
7/1/1998 | Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. | - | Cindy Crawford | |
7/5/1998 | Don't confuse your net worth with your self-worth | - | Bits & Pieces | |
7/6/1998 | Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. | - | M. Scott Peck | |
7/7/1998 | You may not have been responsible for your heritage, but you are responsible for your future. | - | unknown | |
7/8/1998 | Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. | - | Victor Hugo | |
7/16/1998 | After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. | - | Pam Shaw | |
7/19/1998 | The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. | - | William James | |
7/20/1998 | Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. | - | Michael Landon | |
7/21/1998 | When all else fails . . . use persistence. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
7/23/1998 | It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. | - | Agnes Repplier | |
7/24/1998 | Listening is more than waiting your turn to talk. | - | Unknown | |
7/26/1998 | When something goes wrong, it's better to talk about who's going to fix it than who's to blame. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
7/27/1998 | I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. | - | Florence Nightengale | |
7/28/1998 | Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. | - | Washington Irving | |
7/29/1998 | In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through perseverance. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
7/30/1998 | Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. | - | Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. | |
8/2/1998 | Telling ain't teaching and listening ain't learning. | - | Bob Barkley | |
8/3/1998 | The pessimist may be right in the long run, but the optimist has a better time during the trip. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
8/4/1998 | The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts. | - | Booker T. Washington | |
8/5/1998 | There is a great distance between said and done. | - | Puerto Rican Proverb | |
8/9/1998 | The time is always right to do what is right. | - | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
8/10/1998 | It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. | - | Fred A. Clark | |
8/11/1998 | If you want to test your memory, try to remember what you were worrying about one year ago today. | - | E. Joseph Cossman | |
8/13/1998 | Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
8/14/1998 | The Ten Commandments aren't prefaced with "If you're in the mood." | - | Laura Schlessinger | |
8/16/1998 | The world is composed of givers and takers . . . the takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
8/17/1998 | Worrying about what's right is always more important that worrying about who's right. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
8/18/1998 | When you look in the mirror, remember you are looking at the problem, but remember, you are also looking at the solution. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
8/19/1998 | To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute the words "next time." | - | Smiley Blanton | |
8/20/1998 | Upon making it to the summit, your first move should be to turn around and offer a hand up to the person behind you. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
8/23/1998 | Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. | - | Michael Korda | |
8/24/1998 | There is the time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve. | - | Mike Leavit | |
8/25/1998 | The strongest of all warriors are the two -- Time and Patience. | - | Leo Tolstoy | |
8/26/1998 | The only limits, as always, are those of vision. | - | James Broughten | |
8/27/1998 | One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared. | - | Merlin Olsen | |
8/30/1998 | A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. | - | Louis L'Amour | |
8/31/1998 | The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. | - | LEADERSHIP ... with a human touch | |
9/1/1998 | The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. | - | David Russell | |
9/2/1998 | There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. | - | Victor Hugo | |
9/4/1998 | There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that it that there is very little about which one can be certain. | - | Somerset Maugham | |
9/7/1998 | When you have learned about love, you have learned about God. | - | Fox Indian Proverb | |
9/8/1998 | You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. | - | Charles F. Kettering | |
9/9/1998 | Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. | - | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
9/10/1998 | We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. | - | Stevie Wonder | |
9/13/1998 | There's always free cheese in a mousetrap. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
9/14/1998 | To succeed . . . proceed. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
9/15/1998 | The lazy man is apt to be envious. | - | Omaha Indian Proverb | |
9/16/1998 | There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. | - | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | |
9/17/1998 | When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left but could say, "I used everything you gave me." | - | Erma Bombeck | |
9/20/1998 | It's not the journey of a thousand miles that is so daunting - it's the pebble in your shoe that is driving you to distraction. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
9/21/1998 | It is less of a problem to be poor than to be dishonest. | - | Anishinabe Indian Proverb | |
9/22/1998 | Learning begins with listening. | - | Noah Ben Shea | |
9/23/1998 | It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. | - | Omaha Indian Proverb | |
9/24/1998 | It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. | - | Mark Twain | |
9/27/1998 | If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse. | - | LEADERSHIP ... with a human touch | |
9/29/1998 | I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has to say. | - | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
9/30/1998 | You already possess everything necessary to become great. | - | Crow Indian Proverb | |
10/1/1998 | When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. | - | Arapaho Indian Proverb | |
10/4/1998 | Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. | - | Frank Tyger | |
10/5/1998 | Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
10/6/1998 | When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish, as long as your feet keep moving. | - | Shoma Morita | |
10/8/1998 | A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer but a pickax. | - | Navajo Indian Proverb | |
10/9/1998 | Adversity creates heroes. | - | Picabo Street | |
10/12/1998 | Always look at your moccasin tracks first before you speak of another's faults. | - | Sauk Indian Proverb | |
10/13/1998 | Being humble doesn't mean one has to be a mat. | - | Maya Angelou | |
10/18/1998 | Choice, not chance, determines destiny. | - | unknown | |
10/19/1998 | Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. | - | Cherokee Indian Proverb | |
10/20/1998 | Goals are like the stars: they are always there. Adversity is like the clouds: it is temporary and will move on. Keep your eyes on the stars. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
10/21/1998 | It's a pity that things weren't arranged so that an empty head like an empty stomach, would not let us rest until we put something in it. | - | Red Gray | |
10/22/1998 | Live - decently, fearlessly, joyously - and don't forget that in the long run it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts! | - | Adlai Stevenson | |
10/25/1998 | Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. | - | Nolan Bushnell | |
10/26/1998 | I wonder how many birds die in cages believing that the cage's ceiling is the real sky? | - | Og Mandino | |
10/27/1998 | If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. | - | Arapaho Indian Proverb | |
10/28/1998 | Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. | - | Jim Rohn | |
10/29/1998 | Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. | - | Ann Landers | |
11/1/1998 | Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. | - | unknown | |
11/2/1998 | Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. | - | Leo Tolstoy | |
11/3/1998 | No answer is also an answer. | - | Hopi Indian Proverb | |
11/4/1998 | Never mistake motion for action. | - | Ernest Hemingway | |
11/5/1998 | Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. | - | Theodore N. Vail | |
11/8/1998 | All glory comes from daring to begin. | - | Eugene F. Ware | |
11/9/1998 | Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. | - | James Baldwin | |
11/10/1998 | Don't let a cry for help be answered by an echo. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
11/11/1998 | Ideas are like children: your own are very wonderful. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
11/12/1998 | If I spent as much time doing the things I worry about getting done as I do worrying about them, I wouldn't have anything to worry about. | - | Beryl Pfizer | |
11/15/1998 | We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until . . . We have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." | - | Sydney J. Harris | |
11/16/1998 | The surest way to go broke is to sit around waiting for a break. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
11/17/1998 | The problem when solved will be simple. | - | Sign in GM Research Lab | |
11/18/1998 | Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. | - | Edgar Watson Howe | |
11/19/1998 | If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. | - | Bumper Sticker | |
11/22/1998 | Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom | - | Thomas Jefferson | |
11/23/1998 | Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. | - | Hyman Rickover | |
11/24/1998 | Happiness isn't a goal. It's a by-product. | - | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
11/29/1998 | Experience is a good school but the fees are high. | - | Heinrich Heine/ W.R. Inge | |
11/30/1998 | Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. | - | unknown | |
12/1/1998 | Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. | - | Zeuxis | |
12/2/1998 | Deeds speak louder than words. | - | Assiniboine Indian Proverb | |
12/3/1998 | Even though you might be just one person in this world, you might mean the whole world to just one person. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
12/6/1998 | Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. | - | C.W. Ceran | |
12/7/1998 | Ingenuity + Courage + Work = Miracles | - | Bob Richards | |
12/8/1998 | It is good to be reminded that each of us has a different dream. | - | Crow Indian Proverb | |
12/9/1998 | Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. | - | Pawnee Indian Proverb | |
12/10/1998 | One "Take this" is better than two "I will give's." | - | Southwestern Indian Tribe Proverb | |
12/13/1998 | Test your strength by lifting a burden from another's shoulders. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
12/14/1998 | There are many ways to God. | - | Arapaho Indian Proverb | |
12/15/1998 | Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. | - | H. Jackson Brown Jr. | |
12/16/1998 | Without faith, nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible. | - | Mary McLeod Bethume | |
12/17/1998 | Wouldn't the world be a great place to live in if the power of love replaced some people's love of power. | - | Bits & Pieces |